Futile Progress: Technology's empty promise

by Ernest Braun

Do new innovations and products improve our lives? Has our relentless pursuit of technological progress eliminated the blight of poverty, of inequality, of discrimination, of crime, of war? Has the advance of technology increased our happiness and led us to fulfillment and social harmony? The ads would have us think so. But not all technological innovation is desirable, and the fastest rate of change is not necessarily the best. Futile Progress explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185383243X
• ISBN13: 9781853832437
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.2"